Leo Varadkar said a “can-do” Covid-style response needs to be adopted to solve the emergency situation, similar to the response taken to the pandemic.
“We need to turn the corner on housing, it is an emergency, it’s affecting people in so many different ways. “That’s what we’re going to do in the next next couple of months,” he said. “We have to look at in the round.“There are people here, for example, 5,000 people still living in Direct Provision who have status, it’d be good if we could find a way to accommodate them to free up those places.
“There’s legislative levers then as well, so, for example, planning law reform, to make sure that things get through planning permissions quickly.”
No sorry, just looming for votes.
We're Just stealing your house because it's an emergency . You don't need that 5 bedroom house you worked your whole life for but this lovely family who just arrived do .
We remember the last Covid-style response
They want to use authoritarian to steal your private property and downsize you from their dwelling to accommodate your replacements, this is all orchestrated
As he is the perpetrator, is he bragging about that or what?
Covid style response? Lock us all into our houses? That'll solve it.
LeoVaradkar says housing crisis must be addressed !!!!... what the absolute f..k have you been doing for years in government.?
Did Varadkar just wake up or just mumbling in his sleep
YEAH, SO LET'S BLAME MR. PUTIN.
Who is responsible for the housing crisis. Who has been in government and did nothing about it. Who provided homes for thousands of immigrants leaving Irish families on the streets. Oh that's right, it was Leo the Liar. You must have some pair of balls to continue with this crap.
They will allow private developers to build shoeboxes that are build to rent only and charge a small fortune for them
If we only had a system where we could elect individuals and task them with fixing these issues?
Did Santa leave that message I wonder...there's more than housing holding us back. It's the Government!
So. The crisis Leo helped create with mass migrant nonsense, greenie development restrictions nonsense, agenda 21/30 nonsense etc is holding Ireland back [as intended] and Leo now wants to 'solve' the problem he has fostered for years. He must think the Irish are eejits.
A zero tolerance to FF/FG bulshit would be a great start!
If they stopped taking in bogus asylum seekers, the crisis wouldn't be as bad
A few weeks ago he was denying there was a housing crisis !
He is one of the world’s biggest LIARS His time will come.
Best kisser 💋 this side of the river Jordan
let's 60000 people with zero connection or reason tobe here just walk into the country overnight and sees no link to pressures now on our society and its resources. Jesus help me....
Big nose strikes again.
Him being so called leader is doing that . Thanks you d 4 clowns for voting for him in the past. You unleashed a total traitor into my country . Hope your money in your banks disolve
Leo doesn't work for us.. FtheWEF WEFpuppet WEFpuppets KalergiPlan
It’s simple instead of building housing estates build an apartment estates like rest of the Europe. Also not the 2 floors ones but 10+ plus like rest of the Europe.
Brilliant, so what is he going to do about it?
Tramp
Out of the nations total taxable income over the last 12 years what percentage of it was spent on building homes? Because that percentage is how much they cared. Would love to know the actual figure.
Woohoo great - brace yerselves for another influx of asylum seekers 🤫🤦🏼♀️
Prick
Another box✅ This politicals stuffs is easy really 🙄
One hopes Ireland can do better than its response to covid!
If they planned ahead of scheudle they could have been labelled as a competent bunch.
He’s right and it will be downfall of current government after the abysmal job done by current minister. I suspect he has finally realised it needs to be done with urgency, transparency and delivery if he is to snatch victory from defeat - but clock has been ticking for 3 yrs.
And by holding back, he means FDI, and not the 10k+ homeless people, children growing up in emergency accom, patients dying on trolleys.
1b put a tax on the house equivalent to the payment that would be made on a mortgage of the value of the house use this money to build houses to give to migrants and refugees problem solved
1a its very easy sort this problem go through the census and find all houses that have single occupancy in them move them to flats give the houses to deserving families who want to make a better life in Ireland, If there are multiple occupants and the house is paid for
Good man LeoVaradkar ... well spotted
And whose fault is that?
Immigration is entirely to blame for the housing shortage in this country along with the bogus asylum seekers and refugees.
Leo knows what has to happen, letting unvetted and Ukrainian in We're FULL Up And FED UP,We matter first,the IRISH people 📢👏💚 in our emerald Isle 📢. Common sense Leo.
Wrong. It’s him. It’s him and the other filthy spoofers running the show that are doing that.
You could just adapt a half way sensible immigration policy
Then maybe as leader of the country, you could, you know maybe do something about it?
Of coarse the People in direct provision are mentioned first by this traitorous bastard
Huh
Yeah and that's the job of FineGael all these years. Damn you housing crisis. You're stealing fine gael's thunder.
This man is the cause of it the bellend
Well fuck, at least he has noticed it. Horrible feeling his solution is 'they should die and thus decrease the surplus population'
What a clown you have been in government. How many years now
He is holding Ireland back, the clown
Leo is spot on, it’s just a pity his party haven’t been in power for the last decade to do something about it! Oh wait, is this the start of the next media spin cycle for the next election?
The other way around ffs.
There should be a way of linking property tax valuations to the prices houses can subsequently be listed for or the rents that can be charged for renting them. Would look like a very different market then.
Created intentionally ffs
Of course what he really means is that they'll lure an innocent public into relinquishing their homes in an orchestrated housing crisis, much in the same way they lured them into relinquishing their freedoms during the orchestrated plandemic. Don't fall for it.
leotheleak notmytaoiseach
No shit sherlock
Always pointing the finger
More like him fagging his way around niteclubs
The “headless horseman “
I feel like I've heard opposition parties call for an emergency/pandemic style response to this recently & it was dismissed by Leo and his ilk as 'populism'🤔 12 years they've had & all of a sudden FG have realised they need to fix the problems they've caused. WeWantAnElection
Is this eejit going to lock down the country until the council gafs are built? 😅
And the public transport, health care system, education...the list is endless.
'Oh gee, we can't make any progress because of all these problems I keep causing.'
Funny how it's suddenly a problem for him now that it's affecting business.
could Leo be a british spy?
Did he say that at 5pm on an amazingly bright evening! Mind you any evening he speaks will be bright with the amount of gaslighting he does!
No him and his WEF colleagues are
LeoVaradkar In Election mode FineGael Are going to hammer Waffler in Chief MichaelMartinTD & Hang DarraghOBrienT1 & all fiannafailparty Out to dry Next leotheleak Statement will be on Health As Eamon OCuiv said Only one Party will come out of this Coalition it won't be FF
No that would just be the useless government we have!
He means the FF/FG immigration based Ponzi scheme.
No shit Sherlock
Yes, if housing starts hitting FineGael benefactors in the pocket, after 11 years, its time to do something. LeoTheLeak
Strange how many years he had to do anything about it …….. And the health system ……….. Must be an election coming ………..
Houses can't be built overnig..... Wait how long are they in power? Solution➡️government pays developers to build houses. ▶️on completion government sells these houses to people not vultures ⬇️ Currently estates are being built & sold to vultures to be rented ONLY. Madness
A covid like response to housing crisis, that translates to, power to do whatever they like, that could be dangerous
Yes let's lock everyone up until there's enough houses
What an utter wollaper!! You created it you clown
Says the man who takes instructions from Klaus Schwab and his unelected unrepresentative World Economic Forum.
Hé has the power to change that - action is better than words
About time leo, how about implementing the Dublin agreement, or else just start helping self deporters boarding their outward flights, but not before taking a DNA and finger print so that they can't return and seek asylum again wasting Native Irish taxpayers money, Happy New Year
11 years in gov
'Covid-style response must be adopted to tackle housing crisis' So...a useless one that makes the situation worse? Gotcha.
A sick little part of me will laugh at the covidians when they come for private property, lol, the fools the fools the fools...
As a doctor how has LeoVaradkar not noticed EamonRyan's condition that impacts important decisions, holding Ireland back. Or is Dr. Varadkar turning blind eye like RTE / VM do each time he's on RTE_PrimeTime ClaireBrockTV TodaywithClaire . If it was Trump they'd be on it
No Irish people will get those houses you can be sure of that.
No his government and his policies are doing that. Time for an election!!!
Hello ? Stating the obvious here. He’s responsible. What is he doing about it and what is his timeline ? He’s getting paid far too much to be sitting on the fence stating the obvious. Gibberish for media attention.
Put the older generation in nursing homes and let them die?
The brass neck on this guy
Gaslighting shit
I wish LeoVaradkar would stop telling me about all the houses he intends to build. Please just build the bloody houses.
Who created the crisis
So their housing first plans are holding Ireland back? After all, they were the ones in power for over a DECADE when this crisis was allowed to fester for profits...
This statement is for international community ears only He couldn’t care less about us
How many years have they been in power? 🤔
Should take some inspo from Mao here
No shit Leo
FineGael policy working then eh! 😡 HowIrelandWorks FuckThePoor
He created it. I fully agree get him out of that seat. He is underserving like all WEF script programmed to create disasters. We do not need the bad luck script whinge. Right now boring business such trafficking EU. Crime
May I ask for 2-bed apartments/houses in areas close to or commutable to where there are jobs too, available for long-term rent? Cause I don't think we're all family-ready & looking to borrow $$$$ from banks for a 5-bed? What did the census say for Irish citizens' profile?
That’s what happens eventually when you run a housing policy to suit landlords and developers and an ideology instead of running it to serve the country. Eventually is crashes down. Lives are being ruined for an ideology
I presume Media questioned him on this or will question him or did/will they do their usual , You're great Leo , you're fantastic Leo , how did you manage to come up with that. I assume Independent_ie and IrishTimes will be running Opinion pieces lauding him.
Real Bertie Ahern, someone-should-do-something energy off this guy
He must have actually met a homeless family or more likely he's getting a hammering from multinationals cuz they can't get housing for staff HousingCrisis He's saying all the right things but have heard this lip service before
Still talking. 12 years later. And still nothing happening. And while he gets to be free, a young woman was just imprisoned for passing on confidential information. 'Serious crime' the judge said. FreeLauryn FreeLeo
You are holding back ireland
do sth about it then!
A Varadkar press conference 👇👇👇
LeoVaradkar these comments do nothing The dog on the street knew this 5 years ago You FineGael & now fiannafailparty greenparty_ie are responsible for this situation with the running of the country That’s the simple fact of the matter YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE GeneralElectionN0W
STOOOP BRINGING FUCKING TEN OF THOUSANDS OF STRANGE MEN AROUND OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. I know LeoVaradkar is from a family of immigrants but who voted for you. THE PEOPLE OF FUCKING IRELAND…. Even though u lost. The people of Ireland are funding your adultery life and pig masks
Awesome, and to disect that further, who do you think is to blame for this crisis, LeoVaradkar ?
FG have been in government for 12 years! 12 years! if anyone trusts them to solve the housing crisis they developed then they are gravely mistaken. FG achieved what they set out to do! increase 🏡 prices for their voters and to do away with state hosuing, neo liberal policies
Took him 12 years to figure that out ?. I think he needs shut of all those advisors if that's all they can come up with .
When will you call him out on it...we all know there is a crisis and the reason for it doesn't take a genuis to work out cause and effect on this one.
We are starting to look bad internationally. This will be the only reason he will do anything to try sort this...its all optics with him, absolutely nothing will be done bar another poxy scheme that doesn't actually build houses, a few sods turned and job done
No FG is the issue.
If only he was in government... imagine if he was the leader of government in the last couple of years... or now... imagine.
No. Varadkar is holding back the country
Keep people trafficked into ireland 🇮🇪 destroying ireland housing
After over a decade in government Varadkar now realises that the housing needs a pandemic type response despite denying in Nov last it was not a housing emergency. Jesus wept, Varadkar, FG, FF are a thundering disgrace.
Ireland has a very well managed housing crisis, as always follow the money right to the door of government
'a “can-do” Covid-style response needs to be adopted to solve the emergency situation, similar to the response taken to the pandemic' Jesus wept 🙄
Ireland doesn't have a housing crisis, Ireland has an immigration / fake refugee crisis.
🙈 has leaky to many cans of beer. His housing minister DarraghOBrienTD told the nation THERE WAS NO HOUSING CRISES and here we have the Taoiseach saying it’s holding the country back. After a decade of the same government. Will leaky blame SF for this as well.
if only the people who created it would do something about it.
Headline written by a 5 year old
Funny how the Irish have forgotten that Leo is responsible for the housing crisis.
Ya, ask Leo what his government has done to fuel this
Spoofer, been in government since 2011 with Endas famous contract and everything's gotten progressively worse for average people since then. He accuses opposition of populism but then spouts all this bs as soon as he's Taoiseach again like he's been held back the past 11 years.
policies that don't work are holding back this country
More nonsense from the leak it's the unsustainable influx of economic migrants that is causing the problems in housing and hospitals
“Covid-style response”? what does that mean? Legislation to remove civil liberties & property rights? Stop interfering in housing. HAP payments are pushing up prices. As is the policy of uncapped migration, who are then supported by gouging taxpayers so we can’t afford homes.
What? Breach our constitutional rights?
ProblemReactionSolution clown strikes again. Create the crisis to implement the ‘solution’ his masters want; this time it’s the nationalisation of the housing stock. “You will own nothing & you will be happy.”
Covid style response Should be a great success then, wipe your arse with the constitution and drive on...
So he’s admitting FG housing strategy has fucked up this country?
A combination of indifference, waste, excessive overly paid management and spineless politicians are what is holding us back. All of which is happening over a period in which you were 'in power'. Power being an appropriate word for political greed. Clock ticking. No, not Tictoc.
FFG holding ireland back
Bring back Eoghan Murphy.
His government policies caused this ffs.
Slow learner in senior government positions for 12 years discovers what others have been shouting for 12 years. He has the neck of a jockey's under carriage.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 sweet jaysus he and his gang created the crisis as so called Journalists why have yous not called him out on it again gutter journalism NUJofficial
The government are hold this country back
The neck of this buck.
As is our underperforming health system. They are preventing us from increasing population (which should be possible). He cannot speak as if he had no input to the issue. Government policy is 100% culpable for the exodus of small landlords.
Build more houses and fill them with foreigners, so that overseas 'business' entities can fulfil their commitment to the state, in exchange for the tax shelter they receive, to dole out fake jobs.
I say FG, FF and the salad munching parasites are holding back Ireland as a country.. but there you go.
The corrupt coalition of conmen,aka FFGGreens,is holding this country back.
No shit sherlock.
Any style response would do FFS. They've had years, and it's gotten worse under FFG tenure.
12 years LeoVaradkar Paschald et al are pursuing the policies of despicable Noonan in relation to housing. Has he suddenly realised trusting profiteering was not going to work out for our society? They couldn't care less, they continue to gentrify urban Ireland. HousingCrisis
Funny that he can only see the problem in terms of money, never in terms of the lives he has ruined.
More waffle from the man in power for last 12 years ,He's fooling nobody .
We need it for energy & emissions also ...
Well spotted Leo 😁 now stop flooding the country with people untill it is sorted out
Yet he kept the housing minister in the picture......
So long term goal is to take the property from home owners.
Thousands of people are coming in illegally every month looking for a free house? New houses are being built alright but where I’m from they’re all social housing. Won’t help the likes of my children who work but cant afford a house. These illegals will get a lovely house though
Fucking dope.
No, that would be 12 years of FineGael LeoVaradkar and the absolute failure of their housing and health care policies!
The plantation is causing it open your eyes Leo
As a WEF puppet Varadkar and his open borders policy is responsible for the housing crisis. His main concern is to house the scammers in direct provision so he can free up places for more scammers . It he wants to house everyone Irish citizens, EU citizens except the young irish
The current government is holding us back
Your approach to covid was a shambles. Put sick elderly with covid back into nursing homes to spread it, destroyed businesses and the mental health of the nation and then went all out promoting vaccines that don't work very well. Now you want to use the same approach to housing?
A bit like rapists explaining that women are the cause of rapes
LeoVaradkar 1 doctor who is so stressed they show it,nurses who are exhausted,overwhelming over crowding,crying, stress is everywhere,what is your minister for health going to do for these people? Go have a look at your hospitals see what's happening on the real planet
Infuriating. Knows exactly whats required and won't do it.
He will not dare to p**ss of the FG voter base. FFG government must go.
LeoVaradkar aside from housing which by the way has been a state of emergency for some years now!! Health service is at a disgusting level of quality,people left in pain on chairs for over 24 hours,children being left in rooms with other children who have serious issues
With all the hefty taxes that ever exists in this country & particularly for the working class, it's not normal that we have a crap health cover system where medical card is not eligible for every single working citizen, housing, decentralization of Dublin not being a priority.
12 years later he is awake.housing
Only took a few years now he's on the same page. Even after the president told him
So, Varadkar liked being a tin-pot tyrant when he had us all under house arrest, and now wants to turn everything into an 'emergency,' so that he can rule in the same way pretty much all the time? That's a very old trick.
It’s Leo Varadkar and Fine Gael that are holding Ireland and the majority of its citizens back. Our living standards and quality of life are being eroded each and everyday, at a pace that shows no sign of slowing. It really is time for an election.
The immigration crisis is holding Ireland back as a country.
Fffgg are holding back the country, they have been doing it for decades.
It needs an injection alright of money
Wow. He is a real go getter. This government have only been in place a couple of weeks and he’s already identified issues with health and housing. Amazing politician 🤦♂️
No it's F.F +F.G that is holding home owners back.
Precisely which elements of our harmful covid response? A travel ban, perhaps? 60,000 Ukrainians and an open border. Hardly. When politicians with tyrannical tendencies get a taste of the totalitarian’s hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.
If only FG were in power since 2011, sure it would all be grand, wouldn’t it. Gaslighting
Some laugh, you'd swear they only realised this yesterday. We're facing a perfect storm of no tradesmen no where to accommodate them, piss poor infrastructure, banks that won't lend and massive population increase.
So he’s not worried about people who are homeless or can’t afford to rent or buy? But he’s more concerned that the country is being held back?
Turn the corner? They've not even cracked the starting pistol up the straight yet! When FG/FF set out to commodify housing (and they did by inviting the vultures in) they left us at the mercy of the markets. Housing problem will not be solved until they take back possession!
He’s doing a great job. Well done Leo. We love you ❤️❤️❤️
No, uncontrolled ‘refugee’ influx is killing the country.
Oh! Is that what the problem is? Thanks LeoVaradkar for ‘suddenly’ making that realisation & giving us that amazing insight. And I guess you/government had nothing to do with with this crisis you’re talking about? 🤔🙄
I thought the grass isn’t always greener?
Correction, fffgg are holding Ireland back as a country like they always have and always will
Don’t forget the health service crisis and special needs crisis and cost of living crisis
If he’d fuck off be great for everybody
Varadkar and his cronies within FineGael are holding the country back for the past 12 years.